Bland, pleasant, unambitious: Why Coffee Crisp is the ultimate Canadian treat: https://t.co/KSBYk7uLVy by @coreymintz #halloween2019 pic.twitter.com/OIXNd0g2mH — The Agenda | TVO (@TheAgenda) October 31, 2019 Tweeted by @TheAgenda

Published August 15, 2019 12:00AM Welcome to Tough Love. Every other week, we’re answering your questions about dating, breakups, and everything in between. Our advice giver is Blair Braverman, dogsled racer and author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube. Have a question of your own? Write to us at…

The call came about 10 minutes before we were set to check into the Airbnb. I was sitting at a brewery just around the corner from the rental on North Wood…

Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source To scale and sustain Open Source ecosystems in a more efficient and fair manner, Open Source

I remixed a few of my favorite articles on bias in my latest blog post on disrupting bias in feedback. Thank you @JoanCWilliams, @KieranSnyder, and @gillianbwhite for writing things I've referenced over and over and over again, for years. https://t.co/QWCenYp1Iq — Jill Wetzler (@JillWetzler)…

Hi, Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today I’m going to discuss address the nascent political attack on private equity, the financial model in commerce which more than any other defines the Western political…

Prince of the city: Providence Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr., poses before the city's skyline. After Cianci's scandal-rocked administration, Providence…

Since the first tracks in the 1850s, Toronto's railways have been a big part of its geography and history. See it on display at the Toronto Railway Museum and Roundhouse Park in my latest article! https://t.co/zvHzR2c5Xq pic.twitter.com/3IhMRpAIhS — Bob Georgiou (@ScenesFromACity) October 1, 2019 …

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: To Reason with Heathen at Harvest , 2017. An exhibition of Yiadom-Boakye’s work, curated by Hilton Als, is on view at the Yale Center for

Fiction In her first collection of stories, Zadie Smith moves beyond traditional narrative.Credit...Dominique Nabokov AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop.org When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. GRAND UNION StoriesBy…

For most of the past two decades, American troops have been deployed all over the world—to about 150 countries. During that time, hundreds of thousands of young men and women have experienced combat, and a generation of officers have come of age dealing with the practical realities of war. They…

Philip Monk writes on the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art for Canadian Art: https://t.co/J56ix6KkN8. @canartca #TOBiennial19 https://t.co/1Oo2jFXFsv pic.twitter.com/u7RF4ZoMYx — Toronto Biennial of Art (@TorontoBiennial) October 10, 2019 Tweeted by @TorontoBiennial

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My ostomy saved my life; a stoma is not something to be ashamed of. Here's my story: https://t.co/eQxr9OrsUg #MyOstomyMyLifesaver #ostomy5k #ostomy #ibd #crohns #RunforResilience #OstomyAwarenessDay pic.twitter.com/k5e0iiuRao — Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) October 5, 2019 Tweeted by…

Cutting these types of corners is great advice for anyone with an apartment kitchen or without a dishwasher or who just wants to make cooking at home less onerous. I’ve never zested a lemon in my life whooo cares https://t.co/QtBbSKqUrV — Amanda Mull (@amandamull) October 2, 2019 Tweeted by…

AP Photo/Steve Helber/POLITICO Illustration More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world. By BRANDON AMBROSINO Brandon Ambrosino is a writer living in Delaware. His articles have appeared…

This article was copublished with ProPublica. On the evening of May 30, Brad Parscale, the campaign manager of Donald J. Trump for President Inc., gave a speech to a gathering of the faithful. Parscale is a striking figure: six foot eight, with a Viking beard and a penchant for bombast. He was a…

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Mainly a big ranty article https://t.co/IcTZjzKRhH — Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) September 27, 2019 Tweeted by @kevinmarks

“As #Toronto continues to grow in population and density, it’s critical for us to get creative in how we provide new parks and public spaces,” said @Park_People's @jaketobin of the five-kilometre park project. https://t.co/1sfEILhHKW — TRNTO (@PostCity) September 26, 2019 Tweeted by @PostCity

Congrats to @acquia and all the fellow alumni out there! Building a billion dollar company isn’t easy. 🍾🥂🎉 https://t.co/dwEEppXg6u — Rick Vugteveen (@rickvug) September 24, 2019 Tweeted by @rickvug

Is it better for @TransitApp if their writers craft a fun response to Lyft or if they just add more subtext to their next release notes? https://t.co/nx1kYofbAs https://t.co/nx1kYofbAs — Alexandre Enkerli (@enkerli) September 25, 2019 Tweeted by @enkerli

Agree 💯.👇🏻When I was in J-school, we had copy editing assignments & tests. I remember so well one court reporting assignment I worked hard that I got an automatic F on just because I spelled Shoppers Drug Mart incorrectly. Copy editors are important! https://t.co/FxP2e8XAiF — Ab. Velasco (@ab81)…

Melville House Jenny Odell Ryan Meyer Three days after Barack Obama was voted into office in 2008, The Guardian published an article titled “Obama's win means future elections must be fought online.” It was a largely positive piece, hailing the internet as “a perfect medium for genuine grassroots…

After he slalomed between two defenders and one-timed a bouncing stretch pass to the inside corner of the left post, Peter Stone turned toward a teammate, smiled, and celebrated the dazzling sequence with a shrug. Stone's showing on an indoor soccer pitch in Sydney, Australia, earlier this summer…

If you can’t negotiate a car around this boulder you .... should not have a licence. The boulder should be part of the driver exam. https://t.co/SdEcw0hgqX — Insurgent Billion Year Old Boulder (@shawnmicallef) September 19, 2019 Tweeted by @shawnmicallef

Thank you Cheryl from the @VancouverSun and all of our “borrowers” for reading our Human books at the @VPL this past weekend. #HumanLibrary #yvrarts https://t.co/2pcauCvCMI pic.twitter.com/fJkPcutiPi — Zee Zee Theatre (@zeezeetheatre) September 10, 2019 Tweeted by @zeezeetheatre

In 1964, John Cheever published The Swimmer , a short story about Neddy Merrill, an upper middle-class guy who decided to “swim” across the posh suburbs he

The Evergreen Brick Works is the place where Toronto's prehistoric and modern & natural and physical layers interesect. And yes, the industrial leftovers are pretty cool: https://t.co/elaAWkiUDL — Bob Georgiou (@ScenesFromACity) September 14, 2019 Tweeted by @ScenesFromACity

Since #WhatWomenDontKnowAboutMen is trending, I'll just plug this old piece of mine once more: https://t.co/hjo7fLrBHd — Noah Brand (@NoahBrand1) September 14, 2019 Tweeted by @NoahBrand1

Nina Kraviz playing a set on the Great Wall of China in May. “Now a woman on a main stage is normal,” she said. “But when I started it was, like, no one.”Credit...Frankie Casillo BERLIN — Not long after 4 a.m. on a recent Sunday, Kerstin Egert (a.k.a. Tama Sumo), a resident D.J. of the revered…

It’s humiliating to consider the things we know instead of the things we should know. I can’t tell you exactly how the Michigan Republicans are trying to illegally gerrymander their state, but I know why Lana Del Rey is angry on Twitter. So it goes: We want to be educated, conscientious,…

“There’s many layers of fictionalization within this true story.” By Sept. 12, 2019 Through the dirty lens of history: Caroline Calloway, left, and Natalie Beach.Credit...Natalie Beach In its top left corner, Instagram invites you to share “your story.” The platform’s savviest users log on not to…

The author (right) with Caroline Calloway Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Beach When I was a sophomore in college, I took a creative-nonfiction workshop and met a girl who was everything I wasn’t. The point of the class was to learn to write your own story, but from the moment we met, I focused instead…

Check out this long read. It’s super thoughtful and challenging. Ask yourself this: if you acknowledge whiteness and privilege, do you prefer to hear about it from white people? Who gets paid more, on the whole, to be an expert on marginalization? https://t.co/I1LxatmHkW — Turns out I’m 💯 That…

A multibillion-dollar business that embraces advanced technology and cherishes precision, Major League Baseball would prefer not to need an oozy substance harvested by one family in a secret location along the Delaware River. But for decades it has, and that won't change anytime soon. LEBRECHTMEDIA…

Annals of the Former World The geology of the Golden State. August 31, 1992 Photograph by Henry G. Peabody / Library of Congress / Corbis / VCG / Getty You go down through the Ocean View district of San Francisco to the first freeway exit after Daly City, where you describe, in effect, a hairpin…

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When it comes to her well-established career as an anti-racist educator, Robin DiAngelo says, “I kind of fell into it.” Years of deep learning, research and mentorship from colleagues of color led her not only to understand that her whiteness has meaning—but also to become really good at explaining…